Amanda Pavlick
@akpavlick.bsky.social
Roman archaeologist (archaic central Italy, domestic religion, Pompeii), Adjunct Prof @ Xavier, UMass Amherst/Tufts/Cincinnati.
Wine, whiskey/bourbon, burritos, Red Sox, Bruins, 1 excellent tuxedo cat, maybe a few other interests thrown into the mix
Wine, whiskey/bourbon, burritos, Red Sox, Bruins, 1 excellent tuxedo cat, maybe a few other interests thrown into the mix
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Amanda Pavlick
@akpavlick.bsky.social
· Nov 13
What an amazing influx: hello, everyone! I'm an adjunct professor of Classics, New England native (NH, VT, and MA), lover of coffee, wine, burritos. Content here will skew archaeological, primarily Roman and Etruscan, unless I need to yell about the Bruins or Red Sox (it's a bridge year. Again.)
“I’d like our educational institutions, at least, to lead with the message that these generative AI programs as they currently exist simply cannot be used ethically. That doesn’t mean unenforceable bans, but it does mean telling the truth.”
Important words from @lollardfish.bsky.social
Important words from @lollardfish.bsky.social
"We can stop. We can pause. We can demand something better. And we must. Because there is a body count" @lollardfish.bsky.social
www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...
www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...
Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide?
"It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“I’d like our educational institutions, at least, to lead with the message that these generative AI programs as they currently exist simply cannot be used ethically. That doesn’t mean unenforceable bans, but it does mean telling the truth.”
Important words from @lollardfish.bsky.social
Important words from @lollardfish.bsky.social
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Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
August 18, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
Apparently, I'm being made to accept Academia . edu's TOS which grant them ownership of everything I upload. I can't get through to any part of my profile without accepting this BS. Is there a way to delete my account without providing this coerced permission first?
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Apparently, I'm being made to accept Academia . edu's TOS which grant them ownership of everything I upload. I can't get through to any part of my profile without accepting this BS. Is there a way to delete my account without providing this coerced permission first?
@flintdibble.bsky.social Hey Flint! I have a quick question for you re: some materials I'd like to assign to undergrads, and I'd really appreciate your opinion (which is vastly more experienced in this area than my own). Could you drop me a DM, if you have time?
November 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
@flintdibble.bsky.social Hey Flint! I have a quick question for you re: some materials I'd like to assign to undergrads, and I'd really appreciate your opinion (which is vastly more experienced in this area than my own). Could you drop me a DM, if you have time?
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I am once again telling you that taking money from Musk makes you complicit in his instrumentalization of cultural heritage to support his beliefs. Taking funding from amoral entities is, in my opinion, not ethical and it is in fact harmful. www.finestresullarte.info/en/news/elon...
Elon Musk donates $1 million for archaeological sites in Rome
Through the Musk Foundation, the foundation established in 2021 to support international humanitarian and scientific projects, Elon Musk, has chosen to fund a program dedicated to Rome's archaeologica...
www.finestresullarte.info
October 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I am once again telling you that taking money from Musk makes you complicit in his instrumentalization of cultural heritage to support his beliefs. Taking funding from amoral entities is, in my opinion, not ethical and it is in fact harmful. www.finestresullarte.info/en/news/elon...
Just absolutely gutting, watching Marchy react to his welcome back to the Garden.
I miss him more than most people I've actually met.
I miss him more than most people I've actually met.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Just absolutely gutting, watching Marchy react to his welcome back to the Garden.
I miss him more than most people I've actually met.
I miss him more than most people I've actually met.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I'm thoroughly enjoying teaching Ancient Egypt for the first time in something like 13 years, and I won't lie - a huge part of that enjoyment is finding all of the things they put legs and feet on
October 21, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I'm thoroughly enjoying teaching Ancient Egypt for the first time in something like 13 years, and I won't lie - a huge part of that enjoyment is finding all of the things they put legs and feet on
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I have yeeted
the LMS
my uni
has paid for
and which
you were probably
thinking
helps you teach
Forgive me
it was surveillant
so mid
and so broke
the LMS
my uni
has paid for
and which
you were probably
thinking
helps you teach
Forgive me
it was surveillant
so mid
and so broke
October 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I have yeeted
the LMS
my uni
has paid for
and which
you were probably
thinking
helps you teach
Forgive me
it was surveillant
so mid
and so broke
the LMS
my uni
has paid for
and which
you were probably
thinking
helps you teach
Forgive me
it was surveillant
so mid
and so broke
Now if only we could get students to do reading in these again instead of requiring/incentivizing annotations on an LMS....
How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS?
You know what platform never crashes?
You know what platform never crashes?
October 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Now if only we could get students to do reading in these again instead of requiring/incentivizing annotations on an LMS....
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Historian Steve Tuck has a new book out today. Read an excerpt from “Escape from Pompeii” at this link at Live Science! 🏺🧪
'People made it out of the cities alive': Tracing the survivors of Pompeii and Herculaneum, 2,000 years after Vesuvius erupted
Several lines of evidence, from chiseled inscriptions to missing horses, suggest that thousands of people survived the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79.
www.livescience.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Historian Steve Tuck has a new book out today. Read an excerpt from “Escape from Pompeii” at this link at Live Science! 🏺🧪
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My book "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is now available for pre-order. Use promo code WIN26 to get 30% off. Coming January 6th 2026! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
October 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
My book "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is now available for pre-order. Use promo code WIN26 to get 30% off. Coming January 6th 2026! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Ooh ooh is this a time when we go to one web service to talk about another web service being down?
October 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Ooh ooh is this a time when we go to one web service to talk about another web service being down?
Sitting in the window of a cafe and I just saw a woman walk by with a shirt that read "I am not responsible for what my face does when you talk" and I am so here for that energy
August 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Sitting in the window of a cafe and I just saw a woman walk by with a shirt that read "I am not responsible for what my face does when you talk" and I am so here for that energy
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Amazing dinner at Luciano with @akpavlick.bsky.social tonight! Carbonara by a Michelin star chef in Rome just hits different 🤌🏻
June 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Amazing dinner at Luciano with @akpavlick.bsky.social tonight! Carbonara by a Michelin star chef in Rome just hits different 🤌🏻
Genuinely astonished at the Etruscan necropoleis I’ve been able to explore in northern Lazio the past few days - their scale, their extent - unbelievable. Pictures here is the Tomba Pola, Sovana, 3rd c. BC.
June 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Genuinely astonished at the Etruscan necropoleis I’ve been able to explore in northern Lazio the past few days - their scale, their extent - unbelievable. Pictures here is the Tomba Pola, Sovana, 3rd c. BC.
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Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw
i don't mean to come off as rude but we cannot sustain ourselves on outrage and anger forever. i think it's even more important now to post about other things too. even if it gets less engagement. you never know who will find it cool and interesting.
It’s a real mindfuck when most ppl wanna post about their latest failures/successes, or weird shit they saw in the wild or cool stuff they made…but the country is a cesspool so cool/weird shit seems trite.
June 21, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw
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Whoever was responsible for designing the Historic Scotland information board at Wideford Hill Cairn deserves a medal for it.
May 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Whoever was responsible for designing the Historic Scotland information board at Wideford Hill Cairn deserves a medal for it.
Today's SCS Blog post on DEI in the Roman army by @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social is a tour de force, and made all the stronger by being absolutely direct in its modern parallels and message. Impressive and powerful stuff.
(Also, the Bea Arthur cameo is fantastic - I'm off to learn more!)
(Also, the Bea Arthur cameo is fantastic - I'm off to learn more!)
Blog: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Roman Army | Society for Classical Studies
www.classicalstudies.org
May 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Today's SCS Blog post on DEI in the Roman army by @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social is a tour de force, and made all the stronger by being absolutely direct in its modern parallels and message. Impressive and powerful stuff.
(Also, the Bea Arthur cameo is fantastic - I'm off to learn more!)
(Also, the Bea Arthur cameo is fantastic - I'm off to learn more!)
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A while ago, someone on here (I think @scottbot.bsky.social?) compared the way a lot of people treat GenAI now to the way people treated radium in the 1920s and 30s (ooh, let's put it in a health tonic! toothpaste! haemorrhoid cream!). I think about that a lot.
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
A while ago, someone on here (I think @scottbot.bsky.social?) compared the way a lot of people treat GenAI now to the way people treated radium in the 1920s and 30s (ooh, let's put it in a health tonic! toothpaste! haemorrhoid cream!). I think about that a lot.
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Unfortunately we've had a last-minute loss from the Routledge Companion to Video Games and History, and so if there is anyone who'd be interested in contributing a chapter on the history of India in video games (from any perspective, range of case studies welcome) please get in touch asap with me!
May 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Unfortunately we've had a last-minute loss from the Routledge Companion to Video Games and History, and so if there is anyone who'd be interested in contributing a chapter on the history of India in video games (from any perspective, range of case studies welcome) please get in touch asap with me!
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Gather round for an example of a provenance by omission, manufactured through the strategic cutting away of red flags. In 2008, this lovely Greek terracotta maiden was offered to the public, described as "ex-American private collection, collected in 1980's-1990's." Then...
May 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Gather round for an example of a provenance by omission, manufactured through the strategic cutting away of red flags. In 2008, this lovely Greek terracotta maiden was offered to the public, described as "ex-American private collection, collected in 1980's-1990's." Then...
Medicaid is on the chopping block.
Please, please call your reps. Find them here: reps.fyi.
This will deeply damage the insurance system overall, to say nothing of cutting millions of people from care.
And again: as an adjunct, I am one of those people.
Please, please call your reps. Find them here: reps.fyi.
This will deeply damage the insurance system overall, to say nothing of cutting millions of people from care.
And again: as an adjunct, I am one of those people.
May 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Medicaid is on the chopping block.
Please, please call your reps. Find them here: reps.fyi.
This will deeply damage the insurance system overall, to say nothing of cutting millions of people from care.
And again: as an adjunct, I am one of those people.
Please, please call your reps. Find them here: reps.fyi.
This will deeply damage the insurance system overall, to say nothing of cutting millions of people from care.
And again: as an adjunct, I am one of those people.
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#OnThisDay - 9 May - the Ancient Romans celebrated the Lemuria, as Ovid Tells us (Fasti 5.421-422):
"Ancient rites will be celebrated... They will bring offerings to the silent dead."
Lemures were conceived of as the wandering spirits of the dead, often dangerous to the living. #DayOfTheDead 🏺
"Ancient rites will be celebrated... They will bring offerings to the silent dead."
Lemures were conceived of as the wandering spirits of the dead, often dangerous to the living. #DayOfTheDead 🏺
May 9, 2025 at 7:50 AM
#OnThisDay - 9 May - the Ancient Romans celebrated the Lemuria, as Ovid Tells us (Fasti 5.421-422):
"Ancient rites will be celebrated... They will bring offerings to the silent dead."
Lemures were conceived of as the wandering spirits of the dead, often dangerous to the living. #DayOfTheDead 🏺
"Ancient rites will be celebrated... They will bring offerings to the silent dead."
Lemures were conceived of as the wandering spirits of the dead, often dangerous to the living. #DayOfTheDead 🏺
Your Pope name is the last thing you ate + the # of letters in your first name.
Pope Pizza(not balla 😞) VI
Pope Pizza(not balla 😞) VI
Pope Marshmallow VI
Your Pope name is the last thing you ate + the # of letters in your first name.
Pope Porridge IX
honestly, I'm into it...
Pope Porridge IX
honestly, I'm into it...
May 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Your Pope name is the last thing you ate + the # of letters in your first name.
Pope Pizza(not balla 😞) VI
Pope Pizza(not balla 😞) VI